Part I : Introduction -- Problems of shifting cultivation and economic development in Northern Thailand -- The environment of Northern Thailand -- Part II : Institutional constraints on forest farming -- Legal aspects of land occupation and development -- Forest policy in Northern Thailand -- Forestry aspects of land use in areas of swidden cultivation -- Part III : Subsistence swidden systems -- Subsistence agricultural economies of Lua' and Karen hill farmers, MaeSariang District, Northwestern Thailand -- Soil fertility aspects of the Lua'Forest fallow system of shifting cultivation -- Effects of forest fallow cultivation on forest production and soil -- Declining production among sedentary swidden cultivators: the case of the Pwo Karen -- Part IV : Commercially oriented forest farming systems -- Opium culture in Northern Thailand: social and ecological dilemmas -- Ecological relationships in a Hmong (Meo) economy -- Shifting cultivation and economic development in the lowlands of northern Thailand -- Soil fertility problems in development of annual cropping on swiddened lowland terrain in Northern Thailand -- Swidden cultivation in Southeast Asia: historical, ecological, and economic perspectives -- Part V : Conclusion -- Alternatives for the development of upland areas

1. Shifting cultivation -- Thailand
2. Hill farming -- Thailand
3. Land Use
4. Rural -- Thailand
5. Regional planning -- Thailand
6. Rural development -- Thailand